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Latest BP Oil Spill Took Place at Facility Employee Warned Was “Operating in Unsafe Condition“
(Photo: pixelflake) A pipeline operated by BP that ruptured over the weekend and spilled as much as 4,200 gallons of methanol, crude oil and other fluids into …
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Republican “Cut, Cap and Balance” Plan Would Require a 25 Percent Cut in Every Government Program
House Republicans are planning to hold a vote tomorrow on the radical “cut, cap, and balance” plan, which stipulates that the federal debt ceiling only be raised if a …
Unequal Protection: The Court Takes the Presidency
(Image: JR / Truthout) On December 12, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted yet another gift to corporate power—and hammered yet another nail into the coffin of …
Reading the Debt Ceiling Tea Leaves to Predict the Future
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and President Barack Obama during a meeting with Congressional leaders concerning the nation's debt ceiling, in the Cabinet Room at the White House in …
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Our Love Affair With Fish Is Unsustainable
(Image: UC Press) Imagine what people would say if a band of hunters strung a mile of net between two immense all-terrain vehicles and dragged it at …
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“Another Kind of Fukushima?” Asks Whistleblower Robert Gilkeson
No, I didn't make up the whistleblower title for Registered Geologist Robert (Bob) H. Gilkeson. For his important work on groundwater contamination at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in …
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The Dangerous Hi-Jinks of the GOP’s Juveniles
I’ve spent enough of my life in Washington to take its theatrics with as much seriousness as a Seinfeld episode. A large portion of what passes for policy debate …
President Obama’s Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, but No Taxes for Wall Street
President Barack Obama during a press conference at the White House in Washington, July 15 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) The ability of …
Debating the Debt
Truthout follows the debt ceiling debate: Reading the Debt Ceiling Tea Leaves to Predict the Future Monday 18 July 2011 by: Jack Rasmus, Truthout | …
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Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work
During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a Muslim, a mosque, or Islamic pieties. In the wake …